Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle.
A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013.
He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.
Genie Bouchard knew just where to turn with her season on the brink.
The promising young Canadian tennis star put in a call to the legendary Jimmy Connors with the hopes that the five-time US Open champion could help revive her stalled career.
“I’ve known Jimmy for a couple of years actually,” Bouchard said ahead of her second-round match with Polona Hercog at the US Open. “He’s been a friend. He was here this week. We just decided to work together for a couple days, even though we knew he was leaving. He left [Sunday] night.”
Tennis fans and reporters were abuzz on the Internet last week when pictures surfaced of the 62-year-old Connnors working with the 21-year-old Bouchard at both the West Side Tennis Club and the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
“We’re just friends,” Connors told The New York Times.
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